[Catherine Grant's introduction to the above video:]My presentation to this workshop has a somewhat strange take on the
notion of the capacity of "video-writing" to move beyond the
"illustrated text". The video it presents (embedded above) not only uses a good deal of
text, but was also originally inspired by the idea of audiovisually
amplifying, or supplementing, a long pre-existing written study of
Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope. What making it demonstrated to me is that, in scholarly settings,
even the simplest videographic act of presenting an assemblage of
compiled film sequences involves medium-specific forms of argumentation,
for example, the selection and presentation of audiovisual evidence,
montage and mise en scene, titling, sound editing and other creative
effects, all aiming to draw from "a broader notion of pathos, logos, and
ethos than that which has been reified in the age of print literacy",
as Virginia Kuhn has put it.* The result is not only the creation of an
audiovisual argument, therefore, but also, importantly, of an active
viewing space for live co-research - a framed experience of participant
observation which, particularly through its online distribution,
dialogically invites responses (including rebuttals!) through forms of
remix.[Also see Bonus Tracks: The Making of Touching the Film Object and Skipping ROPE (Through Hitchcock’s Joins) andDéjà-Viewing?Videographic Experiments in Intertextual Film Studies] *Kuhn, Virginia. 2012. "The Rhetoric of Remix." In "Fan/Remix Video,"
edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo, special issue,
Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 9. Online at dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0358.

Film Studies For Free is happy to present links to some resources pertaining to papers or presentations at the (recently concluded) annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies at the Drake Hotel in Chicago.

FSFF's author's own contribution to the conference, embedded and pasted in above, was part of a workshop panel on "Writing with Video" (see all of the assets from this workshop gathered by Virginia Kuhn here). In the end, this year -- for the same reasons it's been so quiet at this blog (major, unexpected construction work taking place at home at the same time as a very busy semester!) -- she was unable to travel to the US to attend this final session of the conference in person. But, thanks to the wonders of modern technology her work was kindly presented in absentia by her fellow panelists. Among these, Vicki Callahan and Michael Lachney presented on their pedagogical practices around teaching video argumentation as part of multimedia literacy programmes. In particular, Callahan discussed her classroom use of online video collaborative authoring tools including WeVideo. Cheryl Ball discussed her experience as editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (see Ball's fabulous essay for Kairos on digital scholarship here). And workshop chair Virginia Kuhn presented on her highly innovative large scale video analysis project, a wonderful example of the potential for humanities supercomputing (also see here).

Below are links to a whole host of further conference contributions, mostly collected via Twitter. Thanks very much to those who supplied the links. If you have posted your own SCMS paper online, or know of others not gathered below, please leave the link in a comment. Thank you!

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Founded in 2008, FSFFis lovingly tended (in a personal capacity) by Catherine Grant, Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She always wanted to be a Borgesian librarianwhen she grew up.